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One-Third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries : First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type … of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and … the first time a direct comparison of enterprises from the same size class with and without codetermination at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157035
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Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?
Bozhinov, Viktor - 2017
In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946564
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858488
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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Grund, Christian - 2019
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861282
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870460
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
establishments in Germany. Using data of the IAB Establishment Panel, we find that the incidence of a works council is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870137
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Nonunion Employee Representation : Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945245
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Electoral Democracy at Work
Askenazy, Philippe - 2020
We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834570
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Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction
Bellmann, Lutz - 2018
This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not reveal clearly direct effects, but on an establishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908905
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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability
Addison, John T. - 2019
plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867152